Serie -Desperate housewives

The serie Desperate Housewives tells the hectic daily life of 4 women : Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Gabrielle Solis and Bree Van de Kamp ; they're living in Wisteria Lane, an upmarket suburb of Fairview which is the perfect stereotype of residential neighbourhoods of the US middle-class. Marie Alice Young, a friend of these 4 women, kills herself in the first episode of the serie and is the narrator of the different plots in which the women participate. Throughout the seasons, other women move into the neighbourhood, including Edie Britt, a manipulative and seductive woman, Renee Perry, a rich divorced woman, etc...

The serie constantly mixes humour, drama and mystery and lasted 8 seasons.

Season 1 episode 1 : Susan, Bree, Gabrielle and Lynette wonder why Mary Alice committed suicide ; she had a beautiful house and a nice family : everything seemed to be perfect until this tragic afternoon…
The funeral will take place soon and Mary Alice’s friends try to discover why she decided to take her own life. These friends are Susan, a divorced woman who’s in love with Mike Delfino, a new neighbour ; Bree, a « perfect » woman whose husband wants to divorce ; Lynette, who had a brilliant career but now has to raise 4 children and Gabrielle (Gaby), a former model whose husband is never at home because he’s too busy with his job, so she’s cheating on him with her gardener John Rowland (much younger than her).
Episode 2 : The 4 friends don’t know how to deal with a strange note they have found in Mary Alice’s possessions : do they have to tell Paul, her husband ?
Gaby goes to great pains to keep her affair with John secret, but her husband Carlos is coming home sooner with an expensive present (a luxury car) and almost discovered it.
Lynette tries something new to discipline her children who are unmanageable : she leaves them in the street to scare them off but it doesn’t work : when she came back a few minutes later, her children have disappeared. They just have been hiding at a neighbour…
Bree and her husband Rex go to a marriage counsellor but her perfectionism are holding them back.
Susan finds the courage to invite Mike to dinner but the unexpected arrival of Edie ruins this beautiful evening.

Episode 3 : It is the day Mary Alice planned an evening with her friends, so they have decided to pay tribute to her.
A 9 year-old girl, Ashley (who is a new neighbor), saw Gaby kissing her gardener : Gaby is so afraid that Ashley tells about it that she bought her a bike. But the little girl begins to blackmail her…
Bree finds lies to hide the truth : her marriage is in crisis and she doesn’t want that someone knows it, especially her friends.
Susan confronts herself with her ex in the street and lives a very awkward situation : she finds herself naked in the middle of the street, locked out of her house : Mike comes and helps her.

Episode 4 : Mrs Huber is lacking of money and accuses Susan of Edie’s house fire (Susan entered in Edie’s house because she thought Mike was there but she accidentally dropped a candle) : so she tries to blackmail her to get money from her.
Carlos suspects Gaby of cheating on him but he attacks the wrong person.
The primary school teacher calls Lynette because her children Porter and Preston are hyperactive but she gets upset.
Rex (Bree husband), leaves the house and Andrew (Bree’s son) rebelling : she found him with his friends in a striptease club…

Episode 5 : Since an intrusion in the neighbourhood, the neighbours are afraid, especially Susan : she gets closer to an insisting policemen who is in charge of surveillance, in the total indifference of Mike.
Bree suffers in her solitude because her children are with their father for the week-end, so she spends more time with Zach, the tormented son of Mary Alice.
Lynette and Tom do everything so that their sons are accepted in a prestigious private school because they were dismissed from their former school.
Carlos asks her mother to spy Gabrielle because he knows that she’s cheating on him…

Episode 6 : At the school of Porter and Preston, Lynette is fighting to prevent a modification of the play and ends its costumes.
Susan makes researches to know where is Zach and finds out that he is interned in a psychiatric hospital and Julie (Susan’s daughter), helps him to escape.
Gaby manages to escape from the surveillance of Mama Solis but this one finds out everything.
Bree and Rex don’t manage to come to an « understanding », even with the assistance of the marriage counselor.

Episode 7 : Susan becomes jealous when a friend of Mike, Kendra, is coming ; Mike cancel their first date ans Susan is upset.
Meanwhile, Lynette becomes addicted to the medications for the hyperactivity of her sons ; moreover, she annoyed Tom because she’s involving in his work affairs.
Rex and Bree divorce and he wants to tell his children, Andrew and Danielle.
Gabrielle is also jealous when she discovers that John is dating Danielle (Bree’s daughter), and the mother of Carlos plans to surprise Gaby and John.

Episode 8 : The mother of Carlos has been getting knocked down by a car and fell into a coma ; Bree wants to get rid of the car that was involved.
John breaks up with Gabrielle.
Susan enters Mike’s house and finds a gun and a roll of banknotes : she begins to have suspicions about his intentions.
Lynette tries to find another way of relaxation than the medications of her children because she finally understands that her addiction is a real danger for herself.